When it actually works and Lisa (the stunning Kelly LeBrock) materializes in Wyatt’s bedroom, the boys’ futures start to change for the better.īut as always, there are roadblocks.
So when Wyatt’s parents leave for the weekend, they decide to make a girl… actually make a girl, using Wyatt’s then high-tech computer set-up and know how, a sort of new wave Dr. That Gary and Wyatt are smitten with Deb ( Suzanne Snyder) and Hilly ( Judie Aronson, one of my all-time crushes), Max and Ian’s girlfriends certainly doesn’t help. However, those dreams are consistently dashed again and again by the masses, especially Max ( Robert Rusler) and Ian (a very young Robert Downey Jr.). The story of the film, for you unfortunate louts who have yet to see it, is a somewhat standard territory for Hughes – two loveable losers, Gary ( Anthony Michael Hall in his finest role) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith), cast outs at their school long for nothing but to be cool. I am unashamed in my love for this film and I can happily report that even to this very day, Weird Science towers above the poor excuses for teen comedies of today. So, it is with great pleasure that pleasure that I fête Weird Science as it turns 30 this year (released August 2, 1985), a fantastic example of 80s film hijinks replete with Hughes‘ ability to take something that is on the surface a typical male teen horn-dog film and give it some substance at the end. That it came out in what might be considered the most 80s month of films in the entire decade (along with the original Fright Night, Real Genius, Teen Wolf, Better Off Dead and American Ninja) makes it all the better. While this one may not register on many folks’ radar as a top notch Hughes example, I happily rated it my favorite of his oeuvre back in 2013. This film is a sign post of my childhood, one that carries tremendous meaning and nostalgia. Fewer films have ever made me laugh as hard as John Hughes‘ Weird Science.
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